Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-03-17


Montreal experienced heavy faii o.
snow Monday.
Issrtauant ]. W. Powell Of the signal
oorns died Monday In Washington, OF
softening OF the brain.
Tho President Tuesday signed the
oommission Of obauncey Schultz es as
uistaut treasurer Of st. Louis.
patriok Cleary, tried Monday a. Fall
River, Mass, for killing his wife May on
january 9sth while drunk was iouha
guilty.
willis P. Boeock, twice attorney general
n, Virginia aud q member OF her oonstitu-
tIonal convention of 1850, died Monday
at the age of go years.
The refreshment house Of Hugh Dem
nison, at Braoebridge, Ontario, was
burned early Tuesday morning. Denni-
son and his wife perished In the names
ceperal E. s. Bragg is laid up ct his
cadence, In Fond du Lac, Wis.,, by
hWndneas' His eyesight suddenly failed
while he was out driving and paraiysis
has completely blinded one eye
Isaac Vincent, treasurer of Alabama,
, who disappeared in 1885 with over
5000 600 OF the public funds, was Tues-
,, gav lodged in Jail at Montgomery. He
! was captured near ri Paso, Texas.
Al the weekly session Of the Oongregn-
,ional ministers Of Chicago Monday
!. statement highly eulogistic of Henry
/. Ward Beecher was adopted and ordersu
o 10 be placed on the records. There were
Z only two dissenting votes.
. The committee Of experts, which has
I, iuat closed an examination OF the SUB
Il treasury at Chicago, reports that its ahaii
ays in GOOD condition with the single ex
Or cention that about 800 In counterfeit
ID money were found In its cash.
y y No trains arrived at Helena, Montana
h over the Northern Pacific railroad, from
" last Thursday night until Monday, OWN
o TO the snow BLOCKADE. The first arriya
,g was train from Portland, Oregon. De
50 layed trains from St. Paul we're expscte
W Tuesday.
on The acting secretary Of the treasury
ais with the Presidents approval, has desie
CHI mated San francisco as port from who
81 imported merchandise may be shipped !
i ~ bond In transit through the United State
M to and from the British possessions
ng North America.
Of During quarrel in the house Of Jam'
re, Barrett, near Dunmore, Pa, on Sunda
'ou night, George and Joseph Murrell wei
bar killed, and q man named Motz wac mo
try tally wounded. Barrett was arreste'
Ing He confessed the shooting, but says
be was in self-defence.
the Harry s. Wescott, night clerk at u
lith Walnut Street House, Cincinnati, Ia mis-
,wn ing. He left the money drawer and "a
zest locked, 80 that they had to be brok'
hat open. II ia estimated that he carried
and about $500 belonging to the hotel and
~. Do guests who had deposited their valuabl
I'VE. with him on Sunday night.
adj The capital punishment law in Mai
has been repealed, and imprisonment
mas , life is substituted for death in all cases
l 'n.a murder In the first degree. Such &C
ali yiots, however, are to be kept In cls
tion confinement, away from all association
life and no pardoning power is left with
tual governor and council unless the cow
mole mole Is proved innocent
We The coroners jury in the Denmt
the case at New BrunswlcR, N. d. Iueso
r the rendered verdict that Robert Denmt
and Cornelia Denmead came TO th
time daa,hs date mot knownS nj their late r,
49, l uehtllb Auhlo uOt huoMhJ Nv thch Aneo Az
!, tne dence, on Commercial avenue, Fl
~ IN natural causes, hastened, probably,
nj not having had the proper medical att
d he dance during their late sickness.
! the Douglass Smith, custom house {
-. Z Ger, was arrested for embezzling So,
~ v of the customs money, and his case
sue been before the United States judge
the banc. Judge Wallace Monday Sta
lders that the judges could not agree,
lie, Il granted o certificate carrying the cas-
|, ana the United States Supreme Court.
an Wut claimed by Smiths counsel that as
aver client was clerk employed by hea'
'eace, department he could not be held RESI-
sible.
Nm John Shay, an English laborer, and
Is was wife lived quarrelsome life in big
lnder ement at No. $3.50 First avenue, New Y
10 o. until last Thursday, when the woman
lison, her three children disappeared. Her
Y. B. band came home at night and found I
odist; gone, with all the furniture. He told
ndsay housekeeper that he would keep the I
arian, until Saturday and asked her not 10
urch. turb him. On Saturday Shay was Il
pastor sitting in chair, dead, having comm
their suicide by shooting.